We present a palaeoceanographic perspective of the North Pacific during the last two glacial cycles based on U^<K'>_<37>-derived palaeotemperature records from Japan and California margins. At the Japan margin, the sea surface temperature (SST) in...

In order to understand the responses of terrestrial vegetation in central Japan to global climate changes, we have generated the record of lignin composition from Core MD01-2421 off central Japan in the NW Pacific during the last 145,000 years by ...

Distribution and source of organic matter in surface sediment off Tokachi of Hokkaido Island, inferred from carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions.